RE: Remaining open issues for RFC-2401bis

[Paul Hoffman / VPNC <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>]

At 3:36 PM -0500 3/20/04, Paul Koning wrote:
>If something is supposed to be human-interpreted text then there's
>only one answer, namely UTF-8.

But IKEv2 doesn't say it is text. The exact words from the IKEv2 draft are:
             An opaque octet stream which may be used to pass an account
             name or to pass vendor-specific information necessary to do
             certain proprietary types of identification.
"Octet stream" means "octet stream", not text. If we mean "text", we 
should say "text" and give the one text encoding that all 
implementations must use; obviously, that would be UTF-8. 
"Vendor-specific information" might not be text.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium